Abena Busia, Director Professor of Literature Rutgers University Jean Allman, Treasurer Professor of History Washington University in St. Louis Erik McDuffie, Secretary Assistant Professor Department of African American Studies and Research/ Gender and Women's Studies Program University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign For a list of past officers click here. Jean Allman Professor of History   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne Jerome Branche Associate Professor of Latin American Studies University of Pittsburgh Abena Busia Professor of Literature Rutgers University Kim D. Butler Associate Professor of Africana Studies Rutgers University Yvonne Daniel Professor of Dance and Afro-American Studies Smith College Carol Boyce Davies Professor of English and African New World Studies Florida International University Howard Dodson Director Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Jualynne Dodson Professor of Sociology, African American and African Studies Michigan State University Michael A. Gomez Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies New York University Farah Jasmine Griffin Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African-American Studies; Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies Columbia University Jayne Ifekwunigwe Visiting Scholar, Cultural Anthropology    Duke University Former Reader in Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies University of East London (UK) Francis Abiola Irele   Professor of African and African American Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures   Harvard University Patrick Manning Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History University of Pittsburgh Joseph C. Miller T. Cary Johnson, Jr. Professor of History University of Virginia Colin Palmer Professor of History Princeton University Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles Professor of Sociology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Africana Studies SUNY-Binghamton Verene A. Sheperd Professor of History  University of the West Indies-Mona Filomina Steady Professor of Africana Studies Wellesley College Julio Cesar de Souza Tavares Associate Professor, Department of Communications Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Margaret Washington Professor of History Cornell University For a list of past board members click here. (top)